 | MEETING LIVES By Tulsi Badrinath Meeting Lives telescopes the time and space of myths, history and reality to recreate Aditis experience of life. But who is Aditi? A carefree daughter cocooned in her idyllic childhood of parental love; a friend among school friends who once charted out imaginary plots for their lives as grown-ups; a young dancer for whom art paves a path to freedom from worldly concerns; an educated... | | |  | NEVER A DISCONNECT by Sadhna Shanker What did the three of them have? Abha had Parul, Rekha a marriage and a lover, and Simran a steadfast longing for a man who refused to hold her hand. Not much, when life has so much to offer. Yet each stood at this crossroad by choice.
Never a Disconnect is a journey. It is a multi-layered story of subtle an guish, yearning and hope, moving back and forth from past to... | | |  | Uttara Yogi In 1870, the spiritual leader of the Nagai Japat, makes a momentous prediction: the Uttara Yogi would settle down in South India.
His arrival would presage the liberation of the country from foreign rule and put an end to the era of falsehood. The long vigil for the Uttara Yogi begins.
Having completed his internship for the ICS in England, young Aurobindo Ghose returns to India and joins the service of the Maharaja of Baroda. Soon, he chalks out his programme for achieving the independence of India. He popularises the battle cry Vande Mataram and initiates the Swadeshi and Boycott movements to thwart the partition of Bengal... | | |  | A TRIPTYCH By Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri A Triptych presents three intense narratives set in distinctly diverse yet paradoxically convergent worlds, tailing the trajectory of some very unusual bonds: a scavenger, living off the street rejoices in his dark life, covertly watching from his post a desolate painter whose life is no more than a blank... | | |